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8 killed. 70 injured (including 6 children). Rescue teams racing to find 2 more under Kyiv’s rubble. And Trump is obsessed with critiquing Zelensky’s rhetoric. Great leaders focus on saving lives, not scorecards—and upholding our shared values. #StandWithUkraine #LeadershipMatters #EUStoodWithUS

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

🚨NEW: The head of the US military base in Greenland has been FIRED for an email to base personnel distancing herself from JD Vance’s attack on Denmark. Col. Susannah Meyers’s email was aimed at ensuring unity between the Danish, Greenlander & US staff on the base. The Pentagon fired her for it.

Good news that may have got lost this week... A judge ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events. It's a win for the freedom of the press. 👏 But it's shameful these are wins we're having to celebrate in the first place. 🤦

Bad news, the penguins still are subject to 10% tariffs.

We detained a British tourist for weeks — including eight days in solitary — as she tried to leave the U.S. for Canada. Trump is going to end tourism to this country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. 14 dead, five of them children. Over 50 people injured. The numbers continue to increase. 📹: parents by the body of their son. Russia killed him.

More blood loss at the Observer. No jobs would be lost they said, as the Observer New Review & mag ate both gutted. Less than half the staff electing to go. Senior Times journalists in pretty much all roles. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

The basic risk is this: Iran has sophisticated SIGINT capabilities. If any single member of the 20-person group chat had allowed their handset to be compromised by spyware then it’s a direct line from Iran->Houthis. This isn’t some kind of remote possibility. It’s a real, live risk that was ignored.

This is awful.

I’m as dumbfounded as anyone by #signalgate, but it’s not just Hegseth at fault. NSA Waltz established group and invited Goldberg. No one checked the invitees or objected to discussing secure material. Even if Trump fires all of them, he’ll just appoint awful replacements. The rot starts with him.

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

Russia struck the center of Sumy with a ballistic missile, and there was a school nearby. Fortunately, the children were in a shelter, all alive and well. Several houses and the school were damaged.

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

This is how an apartment building in Kyiv looks like after a Russian drone attack. The residents' apartments, cars were burned. An elderly woman was killed, as well as a dad and his child. Ukrainians go to bed each night knowing we might wake up like this.

🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts Now a judge has ordered them to. Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...

Waited a long time to hear a German leader say this.

I would avoid tourism to the US at the moment - until this madness ends.

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Senator Graham suggests providing Ukraine with intelligence and weapons until a ceasefire: "If we cut off Ukraine, it will be worse than Afghanistan. I don't think President Trump wants to do that," said the Republican senator.

Doomscrolling break... "An unfortunate naming accident" From Professor Hannah Fry @fryrsquared.bsky.social in 2024

Tadaa.

The question about the 2020 election is the sickest, apparently requiring job candidates to deny reality in order to be appointed. Dangerous, horrible stuff.

6 March 1918 | A Czech Jewish woman, Eva Ebelová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 9 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her 7-year-old son Jiří.

Dear Republicans (?#5) This quote has never been more relevant: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke This is your moment. History will document your names right alongside his. I’m looking at you, Lindsey the Lionhearted….

NEW: Multiple reports of Russian missiles pouring into Ukraine tonight, targeting civilians. The US has shut off the intelligence Ukraine needs to protect itself. This hotel in the southern city of Kryvyi Rih took a direct hit. Trump has the blood on his hands of every Ukrainian casualty tonight.

🔴Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules Covid Inquiry evidence reveals the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm bylinetimes.com/2025/03/05/m...

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One more time for the people in the back.

Nikolaevskyi Vanek writes that Russia is preparing missile attacks, they will destroy the energy sector of Ukraine. He believes that Trump has such an agreement with Putin, the US is stopping aid and Russia is shelling the energy sector to force Ukraine to "bad peace."

🚨 'I Cannot Help', Podcast Finale Out Catch the last episode of 'Sergei & The Westminster Spy Ring', where Carole, Peter and Sergei reflect on the story they’ve fought to uncover for so long. dispatch.the-citizens.com/i-cannot-help/

You probably read this weekend the government was watering down the workers rights bill. Having looked at the amendments, there’s no weakening of anything, in most cases it’s been toughened up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Confirmed: the European Commission will go to the financial markets to raise up to €150 billion in fresh money to spend on defence production. The money will then be distributed among member states as favourable loans and be ultimately guaranteed by the EU budget.

Many debating the rationale behind Trump’s actions. Could he be a Russian asset? Isn’t this really just an academic question now?

Powerful statement from Trudeau

Justin Trudeau

"Russia is the aggressor, Zelenskyy is a war leader whose country has been invaded, and we should all be supporting him and not fawning over Putin!" - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...